Some more statistics HRW vs. Freedom House

After yesterday's post showing that HRW's Middle East/North Africa focus was so skewed, I wanted to look a little further.

The weak negative correlation between the Freedom House findings and HRW's focus is all because of Israel. The -0.12 correlation turns into +0.31 if Israel is taken out of the calculations.

Thanks to commenter RuthieofAmerica and my own efforts, I added the statistics for the Americas, most of Asia/Pacific, and Europe. (No sub-Saharan Africa at this time.)

There is one other area of the world where one can see a similar heavily disproportionate focus, and that is the Americas. The correlation between the two is a very weak 0.07, but if you take out the United States from the equation, it turns into a much stronger 0.42. This is because HRW mentions the US far, far more than any other country, over 14,000 times according to Google, more than double the next country I have statistics for (Pakistan.)

The correlation for Western Europe was 0.47 and for Asia/Pacific 0.27 (I didn't include some of the tiny island nations.) For Eastern Europe it is 0.25.

Keep in mind that the Freedom House score is between 2 and 14.

Using a very rough calculation, one can see that compared to Freedom House's numbers, HRW is most biased against the United States (14700/4), France (3710/2), Israel (3940/3), the UK (1740/2), Hungary (1400/2), Australia (1330/2) and Canada (1280/2.)

On the other hand, HRW does not give nearly the proper attention to South Ossetia, Brunei (258/11), Laos, Turkmenistan, North Korea, Oman (328/11), Qatar, and Bahrain, with countries like Algeria, Libya (1240/14), Yemen, Cuba, the UAE and Syria (1510/13) not far behind.

In the middle, with what appears to be a proportional focus by HRW, we see Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, China and Iran.

Here are the numbers I have so far, in rough order from HRW under-reporting to over-reporting. (My formula was a simple one: HRW mentions / (FW score - 1). )

Country	HRW	FH
Northern Cyprus	9	4
Nagorno-Karabakh	101	10
SouthOssetia	198	13
Dominica	18	2
Abkhazia	197	10
Paraguay	115	6
Tajikistan	249	11
Brunei	258	11
Laos	356	13
Moldova	178	7
Turkmenistan	404	14
North Korea	413	14
Oman	328	11
Mongolia	113	4
Bosnia-Herzegovina	228	7
Nicaragua	294	8
Qatar	456	11
Armenia	411	10
Bahrain	460	11
Latvia	108	3
Macedonia	276	6
Trinidad/Tobago	168	4
Montenegro	230	5
Guyana	250	5
Haiti	512	9
Panama	129	3
Azerbaijan	655	11
Belarus	792	13
Algeria	787	11
Kazakhstan	799	11
Singapore	649	9
Bolivia	408	6
Uzbekistan	1070	14
Albania	412	6
Guatemala	730	9
Kyrgyzstan	933	11
Libya	1240	14
Yemen	999	11
Bulgaria	315	4
San Marino	106	2
Romania	319	4
Suriname	320	4
Cuba	1070	11
Lithuania	107	2
Antigua/Barbuda	450	5
Estonia	115	2
Honduras	839	8
UAE	1200	11
Liechtenstein	122	2
Syria	1510	13
Bangladesh	767	7
Dominican-Republic	384	4
Iceland	130	2
Jordan	1300	11
Morocco	1060	9
Monaco	272	3
Tunisia	1530	12
Kuwait	1130	9
Puerto-Rico	142	2
StVincent/Grenadines	294	3
Malaysia	1040	8
Kosovo	1210	9
Taiwan	308	3
Burma	2030	14
Luxembourg	157	2
Slovenia	161	2
Georgia	1140	8
Thailand	1330	9
Ecuador	871	6
Grenada	356	3
Peru	738	5
Belize	371	3
Vietnam	2070	12
Egypt	1930	11
Jamaica	776	5
Lebanon	1450	8
Iraq	2170	11
Afghanistan	2510	12
Nepal	1610	8
Serbia	718	4
Colombia	1440	7
South Korea	483	3
Finland	260	2
New Zealand	262	2
CzechRep	265	2
Brazil	833	4
Turkey	1400	6
Croatia	569	3
SaintKitts/Nevis	287	2
Greece	602	3
Malta	308	2
Costa-Rica	311	2
Barbados	318	2
Cyprus	320	2
Saint-Lucia	326	2
Ukraine	1340	5
Argentina	1010	4
Bahamas	339	2
Saudi Arabia	4140	13
Slovakia	345	2
Andorra	347	2
El-Salvador	1490	5
Cambodia	4110	11
Venezuela	3320	9
Mexico	1680	5
Poland	420	2
China	5080	13
Austria	430	2
Russia	4300	11
Italy	869	3
Uruguay	436	2
Japan	964	3
Iran	5730	12
Denmark	548	2
Indonesia	2370	5
Switzerland	597	2
Ireland	602	2
Pakistan	5710	9
Sweden	721	2
Belgium	747	2
Norway	768	2
Netherlands	997	2
Portugal	1020	2
Chile	1070	2
Germany	1080	2
India	4400	5
Spain	1140	2
Canada	1280	2
Australia	1330	2
Hungary	1400	2
UK	1740	2
Israel	3940	3
France	3710	2
USA	14700	4